This poem earns Nancy the Limerick Laureate number 74 title, and may convince us she might become known as epopoeist of the 21st century.
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
As she takes aim she will flutter
Her long-lashed blue eyes
At all the guys
Then strut off the green while they sputter.
Doris Campbell of Southern Pines understands Patty’s tricks:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
She makes all our hearts really flutter
She’s one of those girls
Whose ringlets and curls
Turn every male heart into butter.
Charles M. Terry of Whispering Pines sighs for her:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
Her stroke is as smooth as butter
Her aim is rarely wrong
She sinks them short or long
Her opponents can only sigh and mutter.
Kendra McGirt of Pinehurst has a theory about Patty’s bends:
Pretty Patty is our favorite putter.
The men admire and women mutter
When she bends down
All the guys are ’round
And you can feel the hearts aflutter.
Margaret McGill of Pinehurst explains Patty’s “Win or Gin” game:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
When she putts we can all hear her mutter
“I must sink this to win
Or I’ll head home for some gin”
Then we’ll really hear her mutter or stutter.
Carol Cummings of Carthage understands the heartbreak of sitting on the rim:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
The gallery was heard to mutter
“How’d she do that?”
On the rim the ball sat
As she flung her putter into the gutter.
Ted Atwood of Lake Auman says that Patty may be the LPGA’s latest convert:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
In her youth a baton twirling strutter...
No more strutting for Pat...
She says “Golfing’s where it’s at”
And I wouldn’t attempt to rebut her.
Jan Dubey of Seven Lakes is a recent arrival from New York:
Pretty Patty’s our favorite putter.
So we took her to Myrtle Beach. But her
Ball hit the hippo’s tail
Bounced in the Old Well’s pail
And rolled into the end-of-the-game gutter.
Don’t forget the Tar Heel from the town of Tar Heel. The mandatory first-line for June is: “A Tar Heel from Tar Heel Named Flo.” Send them to The Pilot, P. O. Box 58, Southern Pines, NC 28388.
Lamont “Tommy” Thompson is a limerick lover from Belle Meade.
